Grand Canyon basketball coach Dan Majerle has turned down a request from the Suns to meet about the NBA team's head-coaching vacancy.

"(General Manager) Ryan (McDonough) reached out and asked to meet, but I told him that I was going to stay at Grand Canyon," Majerle said. "I'm not ruling it out in the future. But there are still things I want to do here."

Former Suns owner Jerry Colangelo recommended the former Suns All-Star to GCU CEO and President Brian Mueller to be the Antelopes' coach to lead them into NCAA Division I five years ago.

Majerle has won more than 100 games in five seasons as head coach.

In the school's first year of eligibility for the NCAA Tournament, the Antelopes came one game away, losing to New Mexico State in the Western Athletic Conference tournament championship game.

Majerle was an assistant with the Suns before leaving on bad terms in 2013 after he was passed over to be the Suns' interim coach for Lindsey Hunter, who was the team's director of player development at the time. Majerle was serving as an assistant to head coach Alvin Gentry in the 2012-13 season.

Lance Blanks was the Suns' general manager at the time.

Majerle, who won 22 games this past season, said the relationship with the Suns was repaired two years ago by McDonough.

He said that Colangelo's ties to GCU has nothing to do with him staying with the Antelopes.

"Mr. Colangelo has given his blessing to me to do what I want to do," Majerle said. "I appreciate the Suns reaching out. I'm a loyal guy. I'm just in tune to what I'm doing here. I feel there are a lot more things I still want to do here."